Back in Reward is not the optimization target, I wrote a comment, which received a (small I guess) amount of disagreement.
I intended the important part of that comment to be the link to Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers. (And more precisely the concept named in that title, and less about things like superstimuli that are mentioned in the article) But the disagreement is making me wonder if I’ve misunderstood both of these posts more than I thought. Is there not actually much relation between those concepts?
There was, obviously, other content to the comment, and that could be the source of disagreement. But I only have that there was disagreement to go on, and I think it would be bad for my understanding of the issue to assume that’s where the disagreement was, if it wasn’t.
FWIW I strong-disagreed that comment for the latter part:
Gradient descent isn’t really different from what evolution does. It’s just a bit faster, and takes a slightly more direct line. Importantly, it’s not more capable of avoiding local maxima (per se, at least).
I feel neutral/slight-agree about the relation to the linked titular comment.
Back in Reward is not the optimization target, I wrote a comment, which received a (small I guess) amount of disagreement.
I intended the important part of that comment to be the link to Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers. (And more precisely the concept named in that title, and less about things like superstimuli that are mentioned in the article) But the disagreement is making me wonder if I’ve misunderstood both of these posts more than I thought. Is there not actually much relation between those concepts?
There was, obviously, other content to the comment, and that could be the source of disagreement. But I only have that there was disagreement to go on, and I think it would be bad for my understanding of the issue to assume that’s where the disagreement was, if it wasn’t.
FWIW I strong-disagreed that comment for the latter part:
I feel neutral/slight-agree about the relation to the linked titular comment.